- Engadget, Friday, August 9, 2013 2:31 PM
Silent Circle, an email and texting services that promises to send communications over an encrypted and secure network is shutting down. The company's CTO Jon Callas blogged the news
explaining that due to the insecure nature of email protocols and outside government pressures led to the company's closing. This is the second company of this type to shut down operations this
week. Yesterday, Lavabit, a company offering a similar encrypted email platform, also closed its doors citing issues with the U.S. government. Read the whole story at Engadget »
